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This riveting oral biography of Billie Holiday is based on interviews that researcher Linda Kuehl did in the 1970s with more than 150 people who knew and worked with the singer. Her findings were left unpublished--Kuehl died before she could put a book together--until Blackburn (Old Man Goya ) began studying them and conducting her own interviews as well as follow-ups with Kuehl's sources. The combination of Kuehl's knowledge and Blackburn's tenacity and the latter's knowledge is represented in memories fr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More